What kind of art would you make if you had the resources?

[L'egoMan]

I want to hear peoples grand ideas and monsterous designs for art they surely will never make, but would make if they had the resources.

Sculptures carved out of whole planets? Paintings made with your mothers menstrual blood? Performance art involving three dwarfs, Djengis Khan and Bette Midler?

I myself haven't got any ideas at the moment. Brie and ritz crackers isn't the best brain food.

[Jackal]

I would like to hang hundreds of 80'x5' foot long strips of red, lightweight fabric vertically, throughout a city. So when flying over it, I could see bellowing strips raging about like tongues licking the city.

Or cut out flowers, hearts and other shapes and hang them so they make fun shadows in the streets and on walls. I may do that in my yard today, cool!

[Nak Nak]

encase johann sebastian bach in a heatproof chamber/ultimate amplification system and throw him into a dying sun. he would play a glorious paean to the futility of beauty!but no one would hear it!!!

[L'egoMan]

I would bend all the worlds guns and rockets like superman!

[Kinbote]

I would see that the never-ending department store of Stephen Millhauser's "The Dream of the Consortium" was made real. We'll meet in the arcade by glass baubles and take the escalator up forty-three floors to Rivers, and perhaps up again to Authentic Norman Castles.

(http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1G1:13510825/The+dream+of+the+consortium~R~+(short+story).html?refid=SEO)

[Telegram Sam]

were I to possess the musical dexterity of Hendrix, the sensibilities of Neil Young and the coolness of a Reid brother - as well as an array of interesting instruments - I would set out to create the album that would revive popular music, have teenage girls screaming at rock shows and the authorities scrambling to make sense of it all

[Squirrel]

A skyscraper made out of cake, obviously.

[Squirrel]

OR, an important building with a big red button in the foyer that, when pressed, would instantly seal off all the exits and windows and release locusts and fart gas through all the air conditioners for a period of between 4 and 70 hours. The button would be completely uncovered and without protection of any kind, would be available to the general public (with the understanding that whoever pushes the button would also be sealed inside) and it's purpose would be clearly labelled. All CCTV cameras in the building would be routed directly to our house for my personal entertainment.

Once I have reviewed the videos, they will be placed on the consumer market at an outrageous price. All proceeds will be split three ways - one third will fund the continuation of the project, one third will be given to orphans, thus making us a registered charity, and the other third would pay for the upkeep of a seventy-foot neon-lit crucifix on the roof, which would gain us tax exemption on religious grounds, and also be visible from the moon.

[L'egoMan]

I would see that the never-ending department store of Stephen Millhauser's "The Dream of the Consortium" was made real. We'll meet in the arcade by glass baubles and take the escalator up forty-three floors to Rivers, and perhaps up again to Authentic Norman Castles.

(http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1G1:13510825/The+dream+of+the+consortium~R~+(short+story).html?refid=SEO)

what's a Norman castle?

[L'egoMan]

OR, an important building with a big red button in the foyer that, when pressed, would instantly seal off all the exits and windows and release locusts and fart gas through all the air conditioners for a period of between 4 and 70 hours. The button would be completely uncovered and without protection of any kind, would be available to the general public (with the understanding that whoever pushes the button would also be sealed inside) and it's purpose would be clearly labelled. All CCTV cameras in the building would be routed directly to our house for my personal entertainment.

Once I have reviewed the videos, they will be placed on the consumer market at an outrageous price. All proceeds will be split three ways - one third will fund the continuation of the project, one third will be given to orphans, thus making us a registered charity, and the other third would pay for the upkeep of a seventy-foot neon-lit crucifix on the roof, which would gain us tax exemption on religious grounds, and also be visible from the moon.

:D

[Intern Kate]

haha! yeah.

[Osceana]

Paintings made with your mothers menstrual blood?

Is this in reference to that one woman painter? I can't remember her name. But she does actually use her own menstrual fluid for her paintings.

[Osceana]

encase johann sebastian bach in a heatproof chamber/ultimate amplification system and throw him into a dying sun. he would play a glorious paean to the futility of beauty!but no one would hear it!!!

Why has this not been done yet?

[L'egoMan]

I didn't really think of her, whatever her name is, while I wrote that. I was just trying to write something corky and somewhat shocking. Sometimes ordinary paint just isn't enough I guess.

There are many absurd things being done in the name of art. You have Orlan a performance artist who has plastic surgery to alter her appearance drasticly. You have Chris Burden, who crusified himself onto a volkswagen and got himself shot in a gallery as a performance. You have artists sowing their mouth shut, was it vito aconcci who scratched himself on his arm for hours until he bled? I for one, am glad art and madness walks hand in hand.

[Cool As Ice Cream]

the destruction of one of the (25) machina II vinyls | the snuff movie

machina II has 5 vinyls. 2 12" and 3 10". i'm sure i could come up with 5 different ways to horrible massacre them.

i could also make a followup movie, that would only show the faces of many pumpkins fans watching the first movie.

[aria]

oil paintings. and by oil, i mean, gas, petrol, gasoline, benzine etc. They'd be ridiculously overpriced but ridiculously cheap by 2008. Bargain hunters watch this space

[Telegram Sam]

seventy-foot neon-lit crucifix on the roof, which would gain us tax exemption on religious grounds, and also be visible from the moon

I drove way out to the west of Edmonton one time, and stopped at this remote church which had a huge red neon crucifix outside. you should try and find it.

[Osceana]

OR, an important building with a big red button in the foyer that, when pressed, would instantly seal off all the exits and windows and release locusts and fart gas through all the air conditioners for a period of between 4 and 70 hours. The button would be completely uncovered and without protection of any kind, would be available to the general public (with the understanding that whoever pushes the button would also be sealed inside) and it's purpose would be clearly labelled. All CCTV cameras in the building would be routed directly to our house for my personal entertainment.

Once I have reviewed the videos, they will be placed on the consumer market at an outrageous price. All proceeds will be split three ways - one third will fund the continuation of the project, one third will be given to orphans, thus making us a registered charity, and the other third would pay for the upkeep of a seventy-foot neon-lit crucifix on the roof, which would gain us tax exemption on religious grounds, and also be visible from the moon.

I like this idea.... I like it a lot.

[Trickster]

OR, an important building with a big red button in the foyer that, when pressed, would instantly seal off all the exits and windows and release locusts and fart gas through all the air conditioners for a period of between 4 and 70 hours. The button would be completely uncovered and without protection of any kind, would be available to the general public (with the understanding that whoever pushes the button would also be sealed inside) and it's purpose would be clearly labelled. All CCTV cameras in the building would be routed directly to our house for my personal entertainment.

Once I have reviewed the videos, they will be placed on the consumer market at an outrageous price. All proceeds will be split three ways - one third will fund the continuation of the project, one third will be given to orphans, thus making us a registered charity, and the other third would pay for the upkeep of a seventy-foot neon-lit crucifix on the roof, which would gain us tax exemption on religious grounds, and also be visible from the moon.

YES!